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Boris Johnson will unveil plan to scrap ALL Covid laws including self-isolation in just DAYS
BORIS Johnson will lay out plans to scrap ALL remaining Covid laws in just days - and finally draw a line under the pandemic.
It will include abolishing the requirement for people who catch coronavirus to self-isolate for six days.
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The PM will ditch the quarantine requirement at the end of February - a full month before it was originally earmarked to lapse on March 24.
Downing Street hailed the super vaccine rollout for letting England throw off the restraints early and get back to normal.
Mr Johnson told MPs this afternoon he will unveil his full plan to "live with Covid" on Monday February 21.
He said: "Provided the current encouraging trends in the data continue, it is my expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self isolate if you test positive."
Health Secretary Sajid Javid added: "We are the freest country in Europe thanks to the strong defences we have built. We’re learning to live with COVID."
Downing St said that while the law would be dropped health guidance would remain.
Mr Johnson's spokesman said: "Obviously in the same way that someone with flu, we wouldn't recommend they go to work, we would never recommend anyone goes to work when they have an infectious disease."
The PM's promise to bring forward the end of all Covid laws was praised this afternoon.
Ex-Cabinet Minister Lord Frost said: "The PM's plan to end all Covid restrictions a month early is the right thing to do and is extremely welcome.
After overcoming Omicron by turbocharging the booster rollout, Britain shook off Plan B restrictions last month.
Cases are still falling - and yesterday the UK recorded a 40 per cent weekly drop in infections.
Another 66,183 infections were logged on Monday, compared to 112,458 last Tuesday.
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"I hope the government will also make clear we will not go down the road of coercive lockdowns ever again."
On Monday deaths were very low, with 45 reported - although figures are generally smaller after the weekend.
But yesterday another 314 fatalities were added to the grim toll, however this number likely includes some unreported from Saturday and Sunday.
Cases have not dipped below 50,000 for weeks, as the country learns to live with the virus.
The NHS still lists a new persistent cough, a loss of taste and smell and a high temperature as the key signs of Covid.
But Omicron is presenting differently, and it's important if you think you have Covid from any known symptom - such as runny nose, sneezing, sore throat - you get a test and isolate for five days full days and take lateral flows to be released.
While Covid won't be a mild illness for everyone, most people who have had the variant say it's like a cold.
It comes as the Health Secretary yesterday revealed his plan for the NHS to bounce back after Covid.
Sajid Javid pledged to slash waiting times for treatment, in a package of measures designed to tackle the record backlog.
He said more than 300,000 people have been waiting for treatment for over a year.
This waiting list has spiralled from 1,600 people - a 190-fold rise compared to pre-pandemic times.
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The Health Secretary declared the country now faces "a new mission to fight what the virus has brought with it".